CCCC welcomes new administrators
Jan 28, 2008

SANFORD – Central Carolina Community College welcomed several new administrators with the start of the new year and new semester:

• Dr. Stephen Athans, dean of the Vocational and Technical Education Department, came to CCCC from the position of dean of General Studies and Academic Support at South Piedmont Community College.

Previously, he served as dean of academic affairs at The Art Institute of Charlotte; director for proprietary schools, sponsored programs, and SACS liaison for the North Carolina Community College System; and director of job placement, career counseling and vocational/technical recruiter/tech prep coordinator at Sandhills Community College. He started his career in education as a high school instructor of industrial technology.

Athans, a native of Vass, N.C., is a graduate of Brigham Young University, UNC-Pembroke, and N.C. State University. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army.

• Marcie Dishman, director of the Information and Marketing Services Department, came to CCCC and Sanford from her position as donor recruiter at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla. She also provided marketing and public relations support for the blood centers there. Her experience includes serving as marketing coordinator for the Whitney Education Group and as the communication/marketing assistant for a campus-community public health coalition in Lincoln, Neb.

Dishman holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from UNC-Chapel Hill.

• Janice Fenner, of Raleigh, chairman of the Cosmetology Department, came to CCCC from the North Carolina State Board of Cosmetic Arts, where she was the Examination Department’s site coordinator.

Fenner brings to her position a background in instruction, curriculum development and fieldwork. She received her Certificate of Cosmetology and Cosmetology Instructor from James Sprunt Community College. She taught there and at Cape Fear Community College and Miller-Motte Technical College.

• Walter Cotton Jr., former lead instructor for CCCC’s barbering program, has been promoted to chairman of the college’s new Barbering Department. The Bear Creek native, a graduate of Harris Barber College, has owned and operated a barbershop in Bear Creek for 17 years.

CCCC split its barbering program from the Cosmetology Department in January to create a separate Barbering Department. That department will be housed in the college’s new West Harnett Center in the Western Harnett Industrial Park when the building is completed later this year. The department will also add a barbering program at the Harnett County Correctional Institute starting in August.